Watching Davy Crockett on TV in the 50's was my first inspiration and I wanted a flintlock rifle but I was much too young. In my late teen years some neighbors had a keg of black blasting powder that was probably 50 years old at the time. We experimented trying to make firecrackers with limited success. I made a cannon out of a bicycle tire pump that shot D size flashlight batteries at the corn crib. It's a wonder we didn't blow ourselves up but I was always very careful. Later on a friend bought some old single barrel shotgun barrels at an auction for a few bucks. I took one and made a muzzle loading shotgun out of one with some parts from Dixie Gun Works. the movie Jeremiah Johnson inspired me to make my first Hawken rifle. Then Virginia started a primitive rifle season for flintlock only so I ordered a kit from Dixie and built one. I finally had my flintlock rifle I had wanted as a kid. I spent some years with a Rev War re-enactment unit during and after the bicentennial.Then I got into shooting in the N-SSA with Civil War rifled muskets. In 1992 I started shooting BPCR silhouette with a Sharps rifle. In 2024 I'm still shooting in the N-SSA and shooting BPCR silhouette. That's about it.
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